Stay Wet
Article from National Geographic (of all things) says “Influenza germs last longer … in lower absolute humidity — i.e., when it’s cold outside and the air is dryer.” So, once […]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Dusters
I met a crop duster pilot one really hot, pretty dusty afternoon on the west side of the Central Valley. You have to see these guys, working at the way […]
A Dog Story
One May night in 2003 the Today Show sent me to a veterinarian‘s office in Clear Lake to deal with a dog. Dosha, the rasputin dog. Dosha had escaped from […]
Airplane Noise
Virtually all World War II film was shot silent, MOS is the insider term. So when you watch movies of dogfights and so forth, the burning plane trailing smoke heading […]
Law and Order
There was loud shouting and banging from the stairway inside. On the 2nd floor balcony of the apartment building a man and an elderly couple stood, she crying, the young […]
Guy Owes Me a Thousand Bucks
In Beban’s Coral, a bar in Chowchilla California, a guy offered me a thousand dollars to kill a lawyer, one he didn’t know. The lawyer was defending a kid who […]
